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“The world is new to us every morning--this is the Holy One's gift and every person should believe they are reborn each day.”

- Baal Shem Tov

We are in the midst of the Jewish observance of Passover.  For more information about this holiday, please consider http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm

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I will practice hospitality in a world where too often strangers are feared, enemies are hated, and the “other” is shunned. I will welcome guests and alien ideas with graciousness.

This is day 4 of 10 as Light Moment offers a different New Year’s resolution each day based upon Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat’s “Spiritually Literate New Year's Resolutions”

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“Moral action is the meeting place between the human and the divine.”

- Leon Roth, "Jewish Thought...in Civilization"

Today is World Kindness Day. For more information about this and the World Kindness Movement, please consider: http://www.kindness.com.au/world_kindness_day.htm or http://www.actsofkindness.org/

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The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, yet the Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.

- Romans 8:26

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“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

- Indira Gandhi

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

~ Winston Churchill

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“See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”

- Mother Teresa

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“The highest form of grace is silence.”

- Swami Chinmayananda